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Bausch and Lomb collaborates with IBM for an app to help cataract surgeons work better
Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye health company, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration to develop the first app of its kind for iPhone and iPad for surgeons who perform cataract surgery. The innovative app will help surgeons streamline their workflow by delivering patient information and clinical insights as well as intraocular…
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IBM analyses Wimbledon live data and creates 3D printed trophies for fans
IBM is usually at the forefront of some innovation and in a recent tie up with Wimbledon, the company aims at a little marketing conquest too. By gathering real time data on running matches as well as taking into account player’s social media activities and popularity, IBM has been creating a few commemorations using a…
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IBM’s 5-year predictions on how your 5 senses will enhance
IBM plays prophet as they go on and express their opinion on what technology in the next five years is likely to be. We should take their word seriously as these are the ones who make or break some of the most significant developments in technology, with their integrated chip expertise and monopoly.
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IBM Mira challenged with simulation of entire universe
Among the most powerful supercomputers in today’s day and age is the IBM Mira. It is touted to be the world’s third fastest computer. To prove its mettle, the computer will be used by a team of cosmologists at the Argonne National Laboratory to run a simulation through the first 13 billion years, post the…
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IBM’s Think exhibition opens doors in New York
To show off to the world its visions of the future, IBM recently pulled the veil of its Think exhibition. Hosted at the Lincoln Center on Jaffe Drive in New York, the exhibition namely has on display IBMs plans for the future world. The Data Wall, part of the exhibition, uses a digital 123-foot wall…
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IBM’s new technology swallows your typing style, will morphe your touchscreen keyboard for more ease
Typing through on a virtual keyboard isn’t exactly a swell but that’s a price you pay for portability and touch screen interface. But IBM is patenting its new technology where the touchscreen will be morphed or resized and will also reposition its keys depending on the user’s style. So this way the virtual keyboard will…
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IBM’s Watson may replace pesky salesmen and telemarketers
No matter how good a particular product or service is, if its USPs aren’t conveyed in the best possible way, it can fail in the market. We have tele-marketers and onsite sales personnel to do that job and since there they are humans, their levels of proficiency are going to be different. IBM wanted to…
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IBM’s supercomputer Watson to battle ‘Jeopardy’ contestants in a wit battle
What could one do to avoid the wrath of a brilliantly constructed supercomputer at a quiz event? I don’t know either. But, maybe the fateful contestants of Jeopardy, a quiz show, will have better explanation to give, once Watson’s done with them. The three episodes of the show will be broadcast between Feb 14th and…
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IBM master superchip for supercomputers
The future of computing was to always promise unbelievable capabilities. But this news from IBM’s brain boys gives us more than a hint of what lies ahead for at least supercomputers. The chip that the company has developed is spun out of a technology that uses electricity and light, called nanophotonics. With this, electrical and…
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IBM’s Predictive Crime Software Reflects Minority Report
Recent technological developments from IBM may have author Philip K Dick calling for remuneration. Their latest Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History (CRUSH) software is being used to predict crime before it happens, just like in his novel-cum-movie: Minority Report, which starred the infamous shorty we all love-to-hate: Mr Tom Cruise. IBM’s latest software is estimated…
